Head and back rest for beds.



No. 730,011. PATBNTED JUNEQ, 1903.

W. 0. FEELY.

HEAD AND BACK REST FOR BEDS. APPLICATION FILED JULY 25, 1902.

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UNITED STATES Patented June 2, 190 3.

PATENT CFFICE.

'WILLIAM C. FEELY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

HEAD AND BACK REST FOR BEDS.

SPEGIFIGATION forming part of Letters i'atent No. 730,011, dated. June 2, 1903.

Application filed July 25, 1902. Serial No. 116,943. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: 7

Be it known that IJVILLIAM C. FEELY, a citizen of the United States, and aresident of the city of New York, borough of the Bronx, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Head and Back Rest for Beds, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The purpose of the invention is to provide a head and back rest especially adapted to any form of metal bedstead and which can be quickly and conveniently adjusted longitudinally ofthe bed to and from the headboard and be given any desired inclination and securely held in adjusted position.

A further purpose of the invention is to so construct the head-rest that it may have a solid or a yielding support for the back and head and which when not in use may becompactly folded out of the way against the headboard.

. The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the head section of a bed, showing the improved rest Fig. 2 is a vertical section through the back-supporting board for the head-rest, the arm-rests carried by the board being folded in the said supporting-board; and Fig. 3 is a rear elevation of the back-support when constructed with a yielding surface for the back.. Fig. 4 is a vertical transverse section through the backsupporting board, the arm-rests being shown lowered; and Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the supporting-board, the arm-rests being shown folded up.

A represents the head-section of a metal bedstead, to the headboard A whereof the improved supporting device is to be applied. Under the construction shown in Figs. 1 and 2 a supporting-board 10 is employed, provided with upright battens 11, at the end portions of its rear surface, and these battens may be permanently or removably secured to the supporting-board. When the battens are removably secured to the supporting-board 10,

the battens 11 and 'a I strip a substituted, of

canvas, rubber, or other yielding material, as is shown inFig. 3, and said strip is attached to the battens 11 through the medium of buttonholes in the strip received by the buttons 13 on the battens.

Each batten 11 is provided wlth two controlling-rods B, connected therewith at their inner longitudinal surfaces, one at a point above the other, so that when thetwocontrolling-rods move in directionof each other, as they are intended to do for the adjustment of the back-support 10, one rod will not interfere with the action of the other. Each controlling-rod B is preferably made in two members 14 and 15, connected by a rule or similar joint 16, constructed in such manner that the rods willbreak or fold inward or in dislide and turn upon convenient uprights 19 of the headboard A, as is shown in Fig. 1.

I desire it to be understood that when the device is to be attached to a solid headboard guide-rods equivalent to the uprights 19 are vertically secured to the solid headboard, ex-

tending sufficiently far therefrom to admit of the series of sleeves 18 having uninterrupted vertical and rotary movements.

The back-supporting section of the device is adjusted to and from'thef headboard by bending the controllingrods inward or straightening them in an outward direction, and when the back-supporting section of the device is carried to the idle or storage position against the headboard A the members of the controlling-rods B will be at acute angles to each other and one rod will overlie the other, as the joints 17 lie in different planes.

Under the construction shown in Fig. 1 the back-supporting board 10 is held in adjusted position and at any desired rearward inclination by hinging an arm 20 to the central rear portion of the board, which arm engages with rack-teeth 21 on a locking-bar 22, which looking-bar may be made in one piece or in hinged connected sections. In operation the bar 22 lies flat upon the mattress, as is shown in Fig. 1, and its rear end is hinged to the bottom portion of the headboard A, so that the locking-bar may be folded up out of the way when not desired for use.

hen the back-supporting section of the device consists of the battens 1.1 and the yielding strip a, the arm 20 is not used, but in its stead'a U shaped orbifurcated arm 23 is employed, hinged to the battens 11, as is shown in Fig. 3, and this arm at its central portion is provided with a downwardly-extending tongue 2%, adapted to engage with the teeth 21 of the locking-bar 22.

\Vhen the solid back-supporting board 10 is used, arm-rests 25 may be employed. These arm-rests 25 are provided with slots or recesses 26 in their outer faces, so that the finger-nails may be introduced or a portion of the finger-tips for the purpose of drawing the arm-supports out from recesses 27, made in the front face of the supporting-board 10, in which the said arm-rests are located flush with the front surface of the board when the arm-rests are not in use, as shown in Fig. 2. These arm-rests have a hinged connection with the board 10 at their lower ends, and such connection is made at a point above the bottom of the recesses 27, so that at the bottom front portion of each recess 27 a springcontrolled hinged plate 28 may be placed, which plates occupy a vertical position when the arm-rests are in their recesses 27, serving to hold the said arm-rests in said upright position, and when the arm-rests are brought down to a position at an angle to the front surface of the supportingboard 10, as is shown in Fig. 3, the plates 28 are folded down within the recesses 27. Preferably the hinges of the locking-plates 28 are spring-controlled, so that the said plates will be automatically brought to locking position when the armrests 25 are elevated.

I desire it to be understood that the arms 25 may be adapted to receive a table or hold a tray or like articles and that the ball-andsocket or universal joints 17 can be substituted by an equivalent construction.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. Ahead and back rest for beds, consisting of a supporting-section for the head and the back, controlling-arms having a pivotal connection with the said supporting-section, which arms are arranged to fold inward in direction of each other, means for adjustably connecting the said arms with the headboard of a bed, a locking-bar, means for connecting the bar with the headboard of a bed, and an arm carried by the supporting-section for engagement with the said locking-bar.

2. A head and back rest for beds, consisting of a supporting-section for the head and the back, controlling-arms having a ball-andsocket connection with the said supportingsection, said arms being constructed in members having a laterally-opcrating hinge connection, one member of each controlling-arm having means for attachment to a bedstead, a folding locking-bar adapted to rest upon the bed, and an arm having a hinged connection with said supporting-section and an engagement with the locking-bar, as set forth.

In ahead and back rest for beds, a supporting-section for the head and the back, controlling-rods having a swivel. connection with the said supporting-section, one at a point higher than the other, each controllingrod being constructed in members connected by a rule-hinge, the hinges of the rods being adapted to break inwardly or in direction of each other, means for attaching the controlling-rods to a bedstead, a toothed locking-bar adapted to rest upon a mattress, being provided with means for attachment to a bedstead, and an arm pivoted to the head and back supporting section, being adapted for adjustable engagement with the teeth of the locking-bar, as set forth.

at. In a head and back rest for beds, a supporting-section for the head and back, controlling-rods having a swivel connection with the said supporting-section, one at a point higher than the other, each controlling-rorfl being constructed in members connected by a rule-hinge, the hinges of the rods being adapted to break inwardly or in direction of each other, means for attaching the controlling-rods to a bedstead, a toothed locking-bar arranged for attachment to a bedstead, and an arm pivoted to the head and back supporting section, being adapted for adjustable engagement with the teeth of the locking-bar, armrests pivotally attached to the head and back supporting sections, being adapted when not in use to fold into recesses in said section, and means for locking the arm-rests in their folded positions.

5. In a head and back rest for beds, battens, a yielding strip connecting the battens, means for attaching the said strip to the battens, controlling-rods adapted for attachment to the bedstead, which rods are constructed in sections having hinged connection, the hinges oi the controlling-rods being adapted to break inwardly or in direction of each other, an arm connected with both battens, and a lockingbar adapted to rest upon the bed, being adapted for engagement with an extension from the said arm, for the purpose described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

\VILLIAM O. FEELY.

\Vitnesses:

J. FRED. ACKER, .TNo. M. BITTER.

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